Bangor International August 2015

Bangor International August 2015 Final Year Biomedical Science Student Makes Break-Through Cancer Discovery

Gruff Rhys of ‘Super Furry Animals’ awarded Bangor University Honours during Graduation Week Rock musician and Super Furry Animals member, Gruff Rhys from Bethesda, Gwynedd, Wales received a Honorary Fellowship at Bangor University on Wednesday 15 July.

Victoria Hilditch in the Cancer Research Laboratory at Bangor University

A long standing enigma in cancer biology is how the cell growth regulator Cdc2 can be active and inactive at the same time. Human cells stop dividing in the presence of genetic damage by inactivating Cdc2, but they also need active Cdc2 to remove the genomic defects. Victoria Hilditch, a final year Biomedical Science student in the School of Medical Sciences at Bangor University, discovered that Cdc2 exists in seven different forms. Further work by her supervisor Dr Thomas Caspari revealed that only two forms stop cell division while two different forms help the cell to repair genetic damage. Read the full story here: www.bangor.ac.uk/news/research/final-year-biomedicalscience-student-makes-break-t hrough-cancer-discovery-23276

He is among a number of talented individuals, who have connections with the University of Wales, who will be receiving Honorary Fellowships during the University’s annual graduation ceremonies. Gruff Rhys will be fitting in the Bangor University degree ceremony between playing at festivals, from Glastonbury to Japan, with the Super Furry Animals. He has recently completed a successful tour with the Super Furry Animals. In the last few years, he has been working on a number of solo projects including most recently, writing the film score for Set fire to the Stars, a film about the last days of Dylan Thomas, and American Interior a tour, film, mobile app and book in which Gruff Rhys goes on a personal journey to follow the footsteps of Welshman John Evans, who explored and mapped the Missouri river while searching of a mythical

Gruff Rhys of the Super Furry Animals tribe of Welsh-speaking Indians. His electro-pop collaboration, Neon Neon were nominated for a Nationwide Mercury Prize for the Stainless Style album in 2008. The Honorary Fellowships are awarded to recognise outstanding contribution in an individual’s particular field. They are presented during a number of the University’s Degree ceremonies.

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